The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. — H. L. Mencken. American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.